

Related: What is Mic Mode on iOS 15? How to create loops for Instagram Boomerang You can also select the app where you want to share this, from here. In the Share sheet that appears, select the ‘Save to Files’ option. For that, tap on the Share icon at the bottom left corner. Selecting the ‘Bounce’ effect will start playing the Live Photos in a GIF-like loop but you’re not all done. So, even though this option is labeled as “Loop”, we’d suggest you go ahead with ‘Bounce’ to make your Live Photo more fun to watch.
TURN LIVE PHOTO TO GIF LOOP VS BOUNCE SERIES
You can also choose the ‘Loop’ option but that will only look put the series of frames in a one-way order, so the video may not look as seamless as you imagined. In the overflow menu that appears, select the ‘Bounce’ option to create a back-and-forth clip of the Live Photos that gives it a lifelike effect. When you tap on the ‘Live’ label inside a picture, you’ll get additional options to turn it into a video loop. If yes, tap on the ‘Live’ label at the top left corner or move to another picture you like. You can tap and hold anywhere on the photo to see how it plays and if this is the right picture for your looping video. The picture will now open up on the screen and you should be able to see the ‘Live’ label at its top left corner as evidence that this picture was indeed clicked with the Live Photos feature. To create loops of a picture, select it from this list. On the next screen, you should see all the pictures you ever clicked using the Live Photos option. To view all the Live Photos saved on your iPhone, you can open the Photos app and go to Albums > Media Types > Live Photos. To capture a picture using Live Photos, open the Camera app and tap on the ‘Live Photos’ button (its icon is marked by multiple concentric circles) at the top right corner of the screen. With Live Photos, you can manually modify a shot by selecting a frame that you personally like or create infinite looping videos that play back-and-forth.īefore you create a looping video with Live Photos, you need to make sure you have Live Photos saved on your iPhone.

In case you don’t know, Live Photos is a native iOS feature that makes your iPhone record a continuous series of frames 1.5 seconds before and after a picture gets actually clicked. IPhone has a dedicated option for creating video loops using the Live Photos feature inside the Photos app. Related: How to Get and Keep Effects in FaceTime How to create loops of Live Photos on an iPhone In case none of this makes any sense to you and you just want to loop a video that you’re watching on YouTube, you can do that as well by following the instructions in the last section of this post. In the post below, we’ve provided a guide to help you make video loops using the Boomerang Maker app that offers basic editing options for free. If you’re sole intention, however, is to convert videos from your iPhone into loops, then you will have to opt for any of the third-party apps that offer the functionality from the App Store. Using Live Photos is by far the best way you can create looping videos of existing pictures on your iPhone. Instagram officially supports the Live Photos function and allows users to create boomerangs directly by selecting a compatible picture from the camera roll. These Live Photos can then be edited to make video loops that play seamlessly from within the Photos app and shared on any app you want to. However, you still get to make video loops by capturing pictures using the Live Photo function with Apple’s Camera app that records a video of the picture you’re taking before you even tap the shutter button.

The native iOS app doesn’t offer such editing options for videos. Looping videos on iPhone: What you can and cannot doĬontrary to what you’d expect, the Photos app on the iPhone cannot repeat videos back-and-forth to create a video loop.
